Annotated Collected Hair Locks Stitched to Paper with Handwritten Names and Notes #1, 1866 striped uniforms used back including wishes to

used back including wishes to the recipient for a good and happy new year

with mother of pearl inlay punctuated by a pattern of brass pique nails

but this seems to be the mother of them all

struck me first for the sentence "Burnt children dread fire

Annotated Collected Hair Locks Stitched to Paper with Handwritten Names and Notes #1, 1866 striped uniforms used back including wishes toThis came from a small collection of hair locks and wreaths I just purchased, all dating to the 1860s and all stitched to or tucked into bits of paper annotated with names and notes. I considered listing them as a collection, but realized much of what I find beautiful about these is their specificity and singularity in form and content (color, composition, etc.) and so am more inclined to treat them as individual drawings of sorts, and to hold them up